Emotional Well-being Archives

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(Martin Lostak)

Consecrated Waiting Rooms

April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Derek Parsons 2 Comments Architecture, Emotional Well-being

Whether we are religious or claim no sense of the spiritual, sacred spaces help us to better confront the transitory nature of existence.

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("Bring Out Your Dead" by Edmund Evans)

Essays Philosophy

It’s All a Bit Absurd

February 15, 2021March 27, 2021 Derek Parsons 0 Comments Absurdism, Emotional Well-being, Pandemic

Amidst a pandemic, Albert Camus’ novel The Plague suggests that we can find courage, community, and hope while embracing the absurd.

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(Jeffrey Howard)

Essays Featured Philosophy

The Power of One Idea

June 24, 2020April 22, 2021 Jeffrey Howard 2 Comments Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Pragmatism, William James

William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience.

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(Emre Öztürk)

Essays Science & Tech

Our Sacred-Scientific, Psychedelic Future

April 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Nicholas McCay 0 Comments Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Transcendence

Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.

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Essays Featured Science & Tech

Can Social Technologists Solve the Atomization Problem?

January 27, 2020May 27, 2020 Jonah Bennett 1 Comment Atomization, Community, Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Liberalism

To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.

Essays Featured Psychology

How Deconstructing Anxiety Makes Transcendence Possible

November 8, 2019March 1, 2020 Todd E. Pressman 0 Comments Emotional Well-being, Transcendence, Truth

With the understanding that fear is the fundamental problem in being human, we have our starting point. To pursue this quest, we must fully deconstruct anxiety, reveal its origins and mechanism, and find its resolution.

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Essays Featured Psychology

‘The School of Life’ Preaches Pessimism over Romanticism

November 5, 2019April 17, 2021 Jeffrey Howard 0 Comments Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Well-being, Emotions, Romanticism, Schooling

‘The School of Life’ is on a crusade to avail us of our emotional ignorance. Philosopher Alain De Botton seeks to remedy the shortcomings of contemporary education systems and the institutions that have failed to instruct us in how to approach the big questions in life.

Ideas Philosophy

Haste Makes Waste

August 7, 2019June 1, 2020 Finn Janning 0 Comments Death, Emotional Well-being, Soren Kierkegaard

Haste becomes waste is intimately tied to the fact that many people have forgotten to inhabit their body, too eager to get somewhere else.

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(Cliff Bustrillos)

Essays Society & Culture

Why D&D Is a Popular Form of Communal Therapy

July 10, 2019July 20, 2020 Malek Samman and Christopher Porzenheim 11 Comments Community, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Well-being

Dungeons and Dragons, the popular tabletop role-playing game, challenges players to improve their moral character, emotional intelligence, and social skills.